8-letter words containing i, n, a, c
- lancings — Plural form of lancing.
- latching — a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- leaching — to dissolve out soluble constituents from (ashes, soil, etc.) by percolation.
- lichanos — (in Greek music) a note played using the forefinger
- ligeance — Chiefly Law. the territory subject to a sovereign or liege lord.
- limacine — pertaining to or resembling a slug; sluglike.
- linctape — (storage) A formatted, block-oriented, high-reliability, random access tape system used on the Laboratory Instrument Computer. The tape was 3/4" wide. The funny DECtape is actually a variant of the original LINCtape. According to Wesley Clark, DEC tried to "improve" the LINCtape system, which mechanically, was wonderfully simple and elegant. The DEC version had pressure fingers and tape guides to force alignment as well as huge DC servo motors and complex control circuitry. These literally shredded the tape to bits if not carefully adjusted, and required frequent cleaning to remove all the shedded tape oxide. That was amazing, because the tape had a micro-thin plastic layer OVER the oxide to protect it. What happened was that all the forced alignment stuff caused shredding at the edge. An independent company, Computer Operations[?], built LINCtape drives for use in nuclear submarines. This was based on the tape system's high reliability. Correspondent Brian Converse has a picture of himself holding a LINCtape punched full of 1/4" holes. It still worked!
- linguica — a highly spiced Portuguese garlic sausage.
- linkback — (Internet) Any of various mechanisms for notifying the owner of a webpage when it is linked to from another document.
- locating — Present participle of locate.
- location — memory location
- logician — a person who is skilled in logic.
- lonicera — Any plant of the genus Lonicera, the honeysuckles.
- lucianne — a female given name.
- lunacies — Plural form of lunacy.
- lunatics — Plural form of lunatic.
- lycaenid — A member of the taxonomic family 'Lycaenidae'.
- lycaonia — an ancient country in S Asia Minor: later a Roman province.
- macaroni — small, tubular pasta prepared from wheat flour.
- machinal — Of, or pertaining to machines.
- machined — Simple past tense and past participle of machine.
- machiner — One who operates a machine.
- machines — Plural form of machine.
- macintoy — /mak'in-toy/ The Apple Macintosh, considered as a toy. Less pejorative than Macintrash.
- mackinac — Straits of, a strait between the peninsulas of Upper Michigan and Lower Michigan, connecting lakes Huron and Michigan.
- mackinaw — a short double-breasted coat of a thick woolen material, commonly plaid.
- macminix — (operating system) The Macintosh version of MINIX.
- macneice — Louis, 1907–63, British poet, born in Northern Ireland.
- maenadic — (Greek mythology) Of, or pertaining to the maenad.
- magician — an entertainer who is skilled in producing illusion by sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; conjurer.
- magnetic — of or relating to a magnet or magnetism.
- magnific — magnificent; imposing.
- mammonic — Of, or pertaining to, Mammons.
- manacing — Present participle of manace.
- manchild — a male child; boy; son.
- manciple — an officer or steward of a monastery, college, etc., authorized to purchase provisions.
- mandalic — Of, or pertaining to, a mandala.
- mandioca — cassava.
- manganic — of or containing manganese, especially in the trivalent state.
- maniacal — of or relating to mania or a maniac.
- manichee — Also, Manichee [man-i-kee] /ˈmæn ɪˌki/ (Show IPA). an adherent of the dualistic religious system of Manes, a combination of Gnostic Christianity, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and various other elements, with a basic doctrine of a conflict between light and dark, matter being regarded as dark and evil.
- manicule — (typography) the pointing hand symbol, used in printing, graphics or signs, to draw attention to or indicate something.
- manicure — a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails, including trimming and polishing of the nails and removing cuticles.
- marantic — (medicine) Pertaining to marasmus.
- marching — to touch at the border; border.
- marciano — Rocky (Rocco Francis Marchegiano) 1924–69, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1952–56.
- marocain — a crepe fabric made of silk, wool, or rayon, or a combination of these fibers, and distinguished by a strong rib effect, used in the manufacture of dresses and women's suits; a heavy Canton crepe.
- mascagni — Pietro [pye-traw] /ˈpyɛ trɔ/ (Show IPA), 1863–1945, Italian operatic composer.
- matachin — a 16th century dance performed by extravagantly dressed masked dancers carrying swords
- matching — a person or thing that equals or resembles another in some respect.